Young Kevin

Stephanie Young's Picture Palace is now available from SPD

in other news...

i might be an UFO abductee (i prefer "abductee" to "experiencer")...though i think abduction phenomenon has more to do with "sleep paralysis" and "astral projection" than extra terrestials...i'm currently reading Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: A Reporter's Notebook on Alien Abduction, UFOs & the Conference at MIT...and Animal Farm...when i say that i think my spirit animal might be a wasp or hornet i could also mean praying mantis humanoid...i've never seen the nordic aliens though...i'm not sure that UFO's are alien. i'm not sure that "alien abductions" have anything to do with UFO's...

i finished The Wire Season 5 last night...bully!

Hannah S. is in town for the week...some kind of big dance party out in Potrero Hill on Friday...or an opening at D-Structure on Friday...i might tend bar...i might dance...in any case, folks are back from Japan safe and sound...hot off the plane from the Able Video tour...

this weather is boner, this weather is ouzo! tonight i translate! going to finish up Agrafiotis's Now 1/3 and start his new book, Maribor...

i thought that Jesse just called me "Mohammad" but what he really said was "'Mohammad' must be like 'John' in the Middle East'"

Gary Gygax is out, though not officially...Mark L. (i always say "Mark L." because his last name is impossible) says that the Cy Gist website should be updated tonight...i have my copies, Mark did an amazing job with the design...as soon as an image is available i'll post it...you'll see what i mean...and then in Nov. i'll be reading with Carrie Hunter at Books & Bookshelves for a Cy Gist chapbook release party...holler.

i've been listening to a lot of Mike Ladd lately...and also "Classics From The Movies" and also Cass McCombs's "A" (Zuk's turning in his coff)...i think i've been listening to a lot of rap music lately, i'd like to stop...

Brandon Brown has been calling me "homie" a lot lately...

my brother is either sailing or sick...or both...or eating and sick and going sailing...i don't think he's an abductee...or his girlfriend...Emma wears belly shirts and cuts a mean hair-doo...she also looks a little like somebody i can't place...

and same thing Kevin Killian's Action Kylie

i've been going to bed by 10pm the last couple nights...not drinking, eating chicken wings with mayo and hot sauce...crazy energy during the day...i was telling Stephanie Y. yesterday that it's like this whole new world, sober-rested energy...i'm projecting/ oozing optimism into the world...stroking the world's private part so to speak...and the world is patting me on the head, massaging my shoulders, licking my ear...feels good, trying to keep it up at least this week...

Azikiwee owes me a sushi dinner, so he says, and some more money from bartending the last opening, i'm into that, though i'm not sure about the sushi, he just got back from Japan...maybe Indian food yeah? i'd like to eat a Nation's cheeseburger with extra "dressing" in the next couple days...

today i'm going to eat soup and an apple and an orange and a banana...i've already had a can of peaches and a peach and some trail mix...

i'm currently receiving a ton of awesome books...but none as awesome as Picture Palace and Action Kylie...buy that shit yo? that was one of my favorite parts of Spike Lee's Sucker Free City (and by favorite part i mean lame)...when the white dude says "we need to re-up kid..."...nobody in the history of the West Coast has ever said "kid"...there was a moment when a lot of us were saying "yo" after Kids came out...but we ditched that shit within a couple months...and then how they looked like ravers c. 1997 but they were supposed to look like thugs (lime beenies? JNKO baggy pants? polo shirts? backpacks? PLUR!)...and then when the dude who lives in the Mission is all "i ain't Mexican...full West Coast Bordiqua nigga..."...cause yeah, Puerto Rican's most definitely represent the Mission...i thought Spike got Hunter's Point right, not that i've ever been there...but it seemed correct...probably because a lot of (most of the) actors playing dudes from HP were rappers from San Francisco...JT The Bigga Figa et al.

...currently listening to books get handled with something Jesse is playing...UPDATE: me just now "Jesse what are we listening to?" Jesse: Stereolab!